All Posts Tagged With: "government monopoly"
Gridlock: Why We’re Stuck in Traffic and What to Do About It
Congestion is five times worse than in 1995. Why? What should we do about it? Those questions drive Randal O’Toole’s Gridlock. The main reason for the increase, the author writes, is that beginning in the 1960s, “Many people looked at the costs of the automobile without considering the benefits, and their solution was to get [...]
21Apr2011 | Gary M. Galles | 26 comments | ContinuedPostal Monopoly: Playing by Different Rules
Once again the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) is seeking to use its monopoly power to defy the economic law of demand. On April 8 the USPS requested an increase in the first-class letter rate from 37 to 39 cents, a 5.4 percent jump. Between 2000 and 2004, the price of first-class postage increased 12.1 percent, [...]
1Jul2005 | Robert Carreira | 1 comment | ContinuedThe FDA Cannot Be Reformed
The past year or so has been tough on the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). In that time, the agency has taken heat over the discovery of a statistical correlation between antidepressants and “suicidal thinking and behavior.” It has also been accused of sitting on information regarding another statistical correlation, this time between pain drugs [...]
1Jul2005 | Arthur E. Foulkes | 0 comments | ContinuedMail at the Millennium: Will the Postal Service Go Private? Edited by Edward L. Hudgins
The copy of Ideas on Liberty you’re reading was most likely delivered to you by an employee of the United States Postal Service (USPS). If there were alternatives open to FEE in the distribution of its magazine, it would certainly explore them to see if costs could be reduced—but there are no alternatives. Thanks to [...]
1Nov2001 | George C. Leef | 0 comments | ContinuedA Phone of Our Own: The Deaf Insurrection Against Ma Bell by Harry G. Lang
Gallaudet University Press · 2000 · 242 pages · $29.95 Reviewed by Andrew P. Morriss In A Phone of Our Own, Professor Harry Lang (National Technical Institute for the Deaf) provides an accessible, thoroughly researched history of the development of the TTY (teletype) system used by the hearing-impaired to communicate over telephone lines. Relying on [...]
1Aug2001 | Andrew P. Morriss | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Post Office as a Violation of Constitutional Rights
In September 2000, the United States Postal Service (USPS) launched a $12 million campaign to advertise a new Internet service, eBillPay, through which customers could pay their bills electronically. EBillPay is one of several new e-services designed to woo back the growing army of Americans who would rather click a mouse than lick a stamp [...]
1May2001 | Wendy McElroy | 3 comments | ContinuedImperfect Opponents
“Microsoft and the government were the perfect opponents. The government has some power, but Microsoft has at least as much. Anyone else facing either one of them would be overmatched.” That is not some comedian’s line. It was spoken in all seriousness, I presume, by David Boies, who led the Justice Department’s antitrust case against [...]
1Oct2000 | Sheldon Richman | 0 comments | ContinuedNothing’s Free
My brother and I have a game we play from time to time. He calls me with a can’t-miss investment opportunity, and my job is to figure out what’s wrong with it. There is always something wrong with it. In fact, the better it looks on the outside, the worse it looks on the inside [...]
1Jun1999 | Russell Roberts | 1 comment | ContinuedHalfway to Anywhere: Achieving America’s Destiny in Space by G. Harry Stine
M. Evans and Company, Inc. • 1996 • 304 pages • $21.95 Not all that long ago, if someone mentioned NASA to me, my guilty conscience would scream “Warning, warning, warning,” like that robot from the old television show “Lost in Space.” You see, when it came to the space program, I kept a scurrilous [...]
1Mar1998 | Raymond J. Keating | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Gift of a Child: The Promise of Freedom
Clark Durant currently serves on the State Board of Education in Michigan and is the immediate past president of the Board. He is also the chairman of the Cornerstone Schools. He and his wife, the former Susan Sparks, have four children. A child. What a blessing. Laughter. A sense of discovery and curiosity. Faith—at first—that [...]
1Jun1997 | Clark Durant | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Myth of the Independent Fed
Dr. DiLorenzo is a professor of economics at Loyola College in Maryland. Ever since its founding in 1913, the Fed has described itself as an independent agency operated by selfless public servants striving to fine-tune the economy through monetary policy. In reality, however, a non-political governmental institution is as likely as a barking cat. Yet, [...]
1Apr1997 | Thomas J. DiLorenzo | 4 comments | Continued-
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